Lock-faucet.



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LOOK FAUUBT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10. 1904.

PATENTED JULY 18,1905.

NITED STATES Patented July 18, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE,

CHARLES C. OONNELL, OF HAYDENVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE HAYDENVILLE COMPANY, OF HAYDENVILLE, MASSACHU- SETTS, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

LOCK-FAUCET- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 795,027, dated July 18, 1905.

Application filed June 10, 1904- Serial No. 211,970.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. OONNELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hayden ville, in the county of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Lock-Faucet, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in faucets adapted to be operated by means of a removable key for use on wine-casks and the like; and it consists of certain peculiar stops for the key and other parts and combinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth; and the objects of my invention are, first, to provide a strong, durable, reliable, and comparatively inexpensive lock-faucet which is safe and secure in the absence of the key and can be easily and quickly manipulated with the latter; second, to afford suitable and adequate means for limiting the rotary movement of the key, and consequently of the plug, so that the faucet can be opened and closed in the dark as well as in the light, and, third, to insure the retention of the key in the look as long as the faucet is open. Lock-faucets are employed principally to prevent the liquid contents of casks, barrels, &c., from being stolen or wasted. I attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view and partial section of a faucet embodying my invention, the waterway being closed and the key poised in position ready to be inserted in the lock; Fig. 2, a bottom view of the escutcheon, and Fig. 3 a top view of the plug.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring to Fig. 1 of the drawings, afaucet a is shown having a longitudinal waterway b and a vertical passage 0 therein. A conicallyformed plug (1, having a transverse port 6 therein, is placed in the passage 0, the walls of which latter form a conical seat for said plug. The elevations of the waterway Z) and the port c are substantially the same. A nut f and a washer g on the lower terminal of the plug (Z below the barrel of the faucet serve to hold said plug in place. The parts thus far described are of usual and wellknown construction. In the top of the plug (Z is a keyseat 7L and slot or recess h, the latter for the key-bit, and a spindle 2' rises from the bottom of said key-seat through and above said plug nearly to a level with the top of thefaucet, all as clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3. Said spindle is designed to be received into the socket of the key.

An escutcheon j fits into the upper end of the passage 0 in the faucet, where it is received on an annular flange d and is soldered or otherwise rigidly secured in position. This escutcheon is provided with the regular keyhole 7". The position of the plug when closed relative to the keyhole in the escutcheon is such that the recess ii is directly beneath the slot for the key-bit in said escutcheon. Projections or lugs 70 and is, both of which are shown in Fig. 2, are made on the under side of the escutcheon, their working faces being at right angles to each other. These lugs extend downward from the escutcheon nearly to the top of the plug, and the working face of one is flush with one side of the keyhole-slot, while the working face of the other is on the other half of said escutcheon at right angles to the first, as before stated.

The key Z used with this device is of ordinary construction, being provided with a central longitudinal socket 172 and a lateral bit 12, located somewhat above the base of the key, as shown in Fig. 1. hen the key is inserted in the lock, the socket m receives the spindle and the cylindrical base of said key fits into the key-seat h with the bit a in the recess it, said key-seat being deep enough for the part of the key which is below said bit. It should be here stated that when the key Z is in place, having been passed through the keyhole 7" in the escutcheon 7', the bit it is long enough not only to engage the sides of the recess 71/, but also to contact on one side with the lug 7s and to encounter the when turned to the left.

Assuming that the waterway I) is closed by the plug d and that the key Z is in place, the op eration is as follows: Turn the key to the left, the only direction possible owing to the pres sure of the lug k, until the bit a strikes the lug is, when further motion is arrested. This action has imparted a quarter-tn rn tow the plug, through the medium of the connection between key and plug hereinbefore fully described, and brought the port a into line with the waterway a The faucet is now open and remains so until the key is turned back to its former position with the bit against the lug is. Only a quarter-turn each way is permitted. Hence no particular attention need be given to the operation of opening and closing the faucet. When the key stops, the faucet is either wide open or entirely closed. The key cannot be withdrawn from the lock eX- cept when its bit is in contact with the lug is, at which time the faucet is fully closed, because at all other times the upper edge of said bit is beneath the escutcheon.

I am aware that various kinds of lock-faucets have been made before and do not seek to cover such a faucet broadly; but

lug 70' What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A lock-faucet comprising a faucet-body, a rotatable plug therein having a key-receiving recess in its end portion, an escutcheoncap secured to the body above the plug and having stop-lugs, projecting from its inner face, and a key adapted to engage the plug and stop-lugs, substantially as shown.

2. The combination, in a lock-faucet, of a faucet-body, a plug fitted to rotate therein provided with a key-seat in its upper end, an escutcheon-plate, (over the open end of the passage in the faucet for the plug,) having a keyhole and provided with two inwardly-extending lugs, and a key having a bit adapted to enter said keyhole and engage said plug, said bit being long enough to engage said lugs on the escutcheon-plate when said key is in place to turn the plug.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES C. OONNELL.

. Witnesses:

C. J. HILLS, BESSIE M. LANGDON. 

